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flags: introduce explicit testing for merging change to exec flag

It turns out that we do not seems to test the simple case for merging exec flag
changes. More advanced case are test (merging exec flag without a common
ancestors, merging with a symlink, etc…) but not the basic.

We are about introduce various fixes to merging flag change across renames,
having  the most basic case tested first seems useful.

note: We are only testing "adding" an exec flag here, not removing it. We
introduce basic test on stable and will consolidate them on default.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8529

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60